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Painted Pottery from the Samarra Culture
This partially broken painted pottery dates back to the Samarra culture, Mesopotamia, 6th millennium BCE. (The Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq).
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Ritual Ceramic Wash Basin (Thapsos Culture, Sicily)
Large wash basin on a high foot with bifid handle (c. 1500-c. 1200 BCE), richly decorated with geometric engravings. Thapsos Culture, Sicily. (Pencil drawing by Gina Pardo).
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Jar With Stylized Landscape, Majiayao Culture
A pottery jar with stylized landscape from Gansu or Qinhai Province, China. Produced by the Majiayao Culture, late 4th / early 3rd millennium BCE.
Exhibited at Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Polada Culture Pot
Clay pot, Polada Culture, Abitato del Lavagnone, Bronze Age, 1800-1600 BCE.
Giovanni Rambotti Civic Archaeological Museum, Desenzano del Garda, Italy.
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Majiayao Culture Linear Design Pottery
Pottery vessel with linear whirl design from China, Gansu or Qinghai Province, Majiayao culture, late 4th / early 3rd millennium BCE.
Exhibited at the Rietberg Museum, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Tombstone Door (Castelluccio Culture, Sicily)
Stone door (early bronze Age, c. 2169 - c. 1500 BCE) closing of a grave dug in the rock, decorated in relief with spiral shaped motifs. On it are carved images that could allude to the sexual act and, therefore, to the continuation of life...
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Nazca Culture Bowl
Bowl, 180 BCE / 500 CE. Nazca; south coast, Peru. The Art Institute of Chicago, Kate S. Buckingham Endowment.
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A Jar from Hassuna Culture
This ball-body jar was found in the Faida district of the modern city of Musil, Ninawa Governorate, Iraq. It dates back to the Hassuna period, 6th millennium BCE. (The Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq).
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Nok Culture Fragment of a Figure
As a result of erosion and mining, one of the oldest and most sophistcated art-producing cultures known in sub-Saharan Africa came to light in the mid-20th century. Hundreds of hollow figures, heads, and fragments made of coarse clay have...
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Arts and Culture in Ancient Greece
Aesychlus Aristophanes Base Capital Chorus Comedy Corinthian column Dionysus Doric column Drama Entablature Entasis Euripides Frieze Ionic column Metope Pediment Philosophy Satyr play Shaft Skene Sophocles Tragedy Triglyph Socrates Plato...